You're Gonna Miss Me
Seconds
The Golden Compass
The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
Sabotage
Ann Everton- Short Films Collection
The Lady Vanishes
Rebecca
Dinosaurs Alive 3-D
There Will Be Blood
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Suspicion
Les Enfants Terribles
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Key
The Charles
The Landmark
The Senator/ The Rotunda
Other (DVD, BMA, Suburban Multiplex)
TOTAL: 13 (10 in movie theaters)
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NOTES: The month began with another great free screening at the BMA (Frankenheimer's Seconds, which made it clear once again that the fact that I have never seen the original Manchurian Candidate is a serious lapse). Be sure to make a note of tonight's free screening at 8:30 of Xala, which was written up this week in the City Paper without the usual sneer or smirk.
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I did not make it out much this month, either renting or heading to my local house. I have been in lock-step with the Hitchcock revivals, filling in blanks or re-watching old favorites, and have enjoyed once again the Charles' chronological survey of a filmmaker's work (I gained much from series on Ozu, Kurosawa, and Bergman).
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I did enjoy watching the collected works of local filmmaker Ann Everton. The collection is available as a free rental at the Charles Village Video Americain, and I would say to check it out if you are up for an adventure or simply watch some of the films online.
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I don't think there is much to say about Film Distribution in General this month. I did miss Youth Without Youth's local bow, but for the most part the game has been to have as many Oscar-nominated films at your theater as you can manage (I got a kick out of the Charles' low-tech message board list in the lobby as a response to the Landmark's ads trumpeting thier nominated films). I also always enjoy when the Landmark is playing the same film as the "dollar movie;" this time it's No Country for Old Men that is unspooling at both the high and low end of the film landscape.
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One of the best experiences of my life was the Satyajit Ray retrospective the Charles ran soon after I moved to town... I wish it made $ense for them to have even more repertory programming, but definitely appreciate what they do.
Have you rectified yr OG Manchurian Candidate status yet?
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